😂 I got my next negative review from a friend today, disappointed the book wasn't *really* space opera - which I take to mean, because it's not all epic battles - despite involving aliens, a murdered world, a mutiny, a spaceship, and an intrigue that will unravel a whole society.
But I find it amusing that all my reminders that this is Dostoevsky in space didn't sink in. I think folks don't expect me to write challenging work - but I cannot fathom why anyone thinks I write nice, simple fiction.
All these years later I still have resort to Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.”
@LSWellesley I feel like a reread is in order myself. :) Dostoevsky had his usual oscillating madness in response to The Idiot - it's the work he was fondest of, while still considering it a failure in execution. I love his openness about his work and its weaknesses. Truly something I wish I saw more of from more writers today.
Just don't tell Nabokov that, because Nabokov HATED Dostoevsky/Dostoevsky's writing. :)
@MLClark
Yes. I am aware.
Both men were highly opinionated.
Nowhere was that pridefulness on display more than in the emigre community of which Nabokov was a part.
Do you know Konstantin Mochulsky’s biography of Dostoevsky?